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This butterfly bush hails from South Africa and has particularly nice foliage. Soft, fuzzy, sage green leaves cover this semi evergreen shrub. Flowers in the early spring, before the Buddleia davidii cultivars , with soft - lavender fragrant flowers that attract many different insects such as bees and butterflies.  Growing as much as 10 ft. tall and wide, it can be easily pruned to stay smaller.  Useful as a framework, background shrub or used in a hedge.  Birds enjoy the food source of insects attracted to the shrub as well as the cover the dense foliage provides. Plant in full sun with moderate to little summer water.